Staff
Staff
Staff
Victor Luftig
Co-Director; Project Director Teachers for a New Era Programs; Director, Writing and Rhetoric ProgramUndergraduate Literature Courses and First-Year Seminars
Cristina Richieri Griffin
Managing Director of the Teaching Literature for Liberation Project; Assistant Professor of EnglishCristina teaches as an Assistant Professor in the English Department at UVA. Her courses span nineteenth-century literature, gothic fiction, history and theory of the novel, and gender and sexuality studies.
Lisa Woolfork
Co-Director; Project Director Teaching Literature for Liberation; Associate ProfessorAssociate Professor
Project Directors
Fahad Ahmad Bishara
Project Director History; Associate Professor, Indian Ocean History; Rouhollah Ramazani Associate Professor of Arabian Peninsula and Gulf StudiesI specialize in the economic and legal history of the Indian Ocean and Islamic world.
Derrick Alridge
Project Director Education; Philip J. Gibson Professor of Education; Affiliate faculty member in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African StudiesDerrick P. Alridge, a former middle and high school social studies and history teacher, serves as the Philip J. Gibson Professor of Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies.
Alison Booth
Project Director English Language and Literature; Professor of English, Director, Scholars LabI enjoy teaching courses in Victorian fiction, women writers, Gothic, narrative theory, auto/biography, travel, and other topics, uniting my research interests and willingness to adapt technology in the classroom with my insistence on critical and writing skills.
Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor
Project Director Religion; Associate Professor of Religious Studies; Co-Director of the Religion, Race & Democracy LabCo-Director, Religion, Race & Democracy Lab
John F. Miller
Project Director Classics; Arthur F and Marian W Stocker Professor of ClassicsHis work concentrates in Latin poetry, particularly its religious background and affinities with Hellenistic poetics.
Edward Murphy
Project Director Science; Professor of AstronomyResearch Interests:
Education and public outreach, ISM, UV and radio astronomy
Ricardo Padrón
Project Director Foreign Languages; Professor of SpanishRicardo Padrón is a Professor of Spanish who studies the literature and culture of the early modern Hispanic world, particularly questions of empire, space, and cartography.
Gustavo Pellón
Project Director Foreign Languages; Professor of SpanishProfessor Pellón’s major fields of teaching and research are the contemporary novel in Latin America, literary theory, and translation.
Lisa A. Reilly
Project Director Art; Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, Architectural HistoryLisa Reilly is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, London and has worked extensively in the United Kingdom.
Marc Selverstone
Project Director Miller Center; Associate Professor and Chair of the Presidential Recordings ProgramMarc Selverstone is an associate professor in Presidential Studies at the Miller Center and chair of the Center’s Presidential Recordings Program.
Stephanie D. van Hover
Project Director Curry School; Professor, Curry School of Education and Human Development; Chair, Department of Curriculum, Instruction and Special EducationRecipient of the 2003 Larry Metcalf Exemplary Dissertation Award of the National Council for the Social Studies for “Deborah Partridge Wolfe’s Contributions to Social Education.” (Fall 2003)